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A TASTE FOR LOVE

Jennifer Yen

For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao.
To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating.

The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. But when Liza arrives on the first day of the bake-off, she realizes there's a catch: all of the contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for Liza to date.

The bachelorette situation Liza has found herself in is made even worse when she happens to be grudgingly attracted to one of the contestants; the stoic, impenetrable, annoyingly hot James Wong. As she battles against her feelings for James, and for her mother's approval, Liza begins to realize there's no tried and true recipe for love.

Jennifer Yen lives in Houston, Texas with her family. By day, she stays busy with her work as a doctor, splitting her time between academia and private practice, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. By night, she is a passionate writer dedicated to working on her next book, with hopes of bringing a little magic into the world of each of her readers.
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Published 2021-02-02 by Razorbill

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A plot-driven romance with a happy ending, Yen's debut is filled with mouth-watering descriptions of jelly cakes, egg waffles, matcha cookies, boba tea, and char siu bao...A fun story about family and friendship.

Brightly (295k UVPM) included A TASTE FOR LOVE in their round-up of 16 YA Books on Love!: For fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Jane Austen, and, well, boba, char siu bao, and matcha cookies, A Taste for Love will satisfy on many levels... Read more...

Cosmopolitan (38M UVPM) included A TASTE FOR LOVE in a Best of 2021 YA roundup! Read more...

Buzzfeed (51M UVPM) included A TASTE FOR LOVE in FOUR round-ups: 2021 YA Books We're Looking Forward to Getting Our Hands On 40 Contemporary Books We're Looking Forward to Reading in 2021 "To All the Boys" Is Ending, So Here Are 10 Books and 10 Movies to Fill That Void 15 New YA Romance That'll Warm Up Your Winter Read more...

The Houston Chronicle (3M UVPM) included the launch event in their event listings (and will run an interview with Jennifer, date TK) Read more...

Book Riot (3M UVPM) encouraged readers to pick up A TASTE FOR LOVE and Get Cozy with These Winter 2021 YA Books for Your TBR, and also included it in a romance round-up and on their All the Books podcast! Read more...

Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Melhoramentos

School Library Journal featured A TASTE FOR LOVE in their Delicious Reads YA Spotlight! Read more...

Culturess (47.7k UVPM) exclusively revealed the adorable cover and first chapter of Jennifer Yen's debut, A TASTE FOR LOVE! Read more...

Scrumptious.

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A TASTE FOR LOVE is higlighted on She Reads list of Most Anticipated Romance Books of 2021 and on Most Anticipated round-ups by Forever Young Adult, United by Pop, and The Contented Reader!

Pride and Prejudice gets a taste of The Great British Bake Off in this debut, which hits all the right notes.

A TASTE FOR LOVE was included in Most Anticipated round-ups by Forever Young Adult, United by Pop, and The Contented Reader! Read more...